The strange names of colors

Every day we are confronted with a lot of colors and shades. Some names we know from childhood, and the name of the other not even think about. Despite the official classification, the creative people came up with fancy names of colors, which will not meet every day. Here are the most interesting of them.

Bismarck (or Bismark-Furioso) brown with a red tint. Named after Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of Germany. Used for marking the waterline on the hull.

Verdigri. Grey with some greenish colour. Is the color of the thin oxide-carbonate film of natural origin, formed on copper or bronze is exposed to air, water, carbon dioxide, or sulfur. This is the green patina that covers the old copper pipes and the roof, gives the Statue of Liberty characteristic bluish-green color.

Surprise Dauphin. It is the color of childish surprise. That is, speaking in a rude, popular language — this is diarrheic color. It is something between a yellow-brown with a greenish tinge. According to legend, this name comes from the time of Marie Antoinette. The royal woman gave birth to a son, he was publicly emptied, but the woman did not lose her head and called this color of children's surprise “the surprise of the dauphin”.

The color of a frightened mouse – light grey, in people it is called smur. Unfortunately the origin of this name is unknown.

Toad fainted. This color was not invented by royal families, but by the developers of the Yandex search engine. If you enter such a request on foreign resources, you will not get anything, because there is no answer to it. If you describe this color, it is something between a gray-green and a stone.

Unusual colors attract people, so they are often used for color characteristics of cosmetics, clothes, furniture, cars. This kind of marketing, the purpose of which is to entice the consumer into the trap of novelty.

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